Combination ash tray and match holder



Sept. 30 1924.

C. W. GIRSCH COMBINATION ASH TRAY ANT) MATCH HOLDER Filed July 13. 1923' .qco

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PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION ASH TRAY AND MATCH HOLDER Application filed July 13, 1923. Serial No. 651,278.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES. W. Gmson, of the city of New York, State of New York, United States of America, a citizen of the United States of America, ,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Ash Trays and Match Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices used for receiving ashes from cigarettes and cigars, as well as for the holding of matches, and the object of my invention is to devise a con struction, while useful in the home or other places, is particularly adapted for use on automobiles, which will be compact, which will prevent spilling of the matches and ashes when travelling over rough roads, and which may be secured in place on the automobile in various kinds of positions.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my device showing the matches in position thereon;

Fig. 2 a rear elevation of the same; and

Fig. 3 a vertical section showing the box of matches being withdrawn.

1 is a holder preferably bent up to form from sheet metal, in which is adapted to be received the receptacle 2 for the ashes, the forward side of the holder being bent inwardly at its lower end to form a stop 3 for the receptacle 2. The holder 1 and tray 2, it will be noted on reference to the drawings are of considerable depth, relative to their other dimensions, and therefore in travel- I ling over rough roads, there is little danger hill of the receptacle being jarred out of the holder or the ashes out of the receptacle. The receptacle is provided at its upper edge with a tab 4: to facilitate its withdrawal from the holder 1 when it is desired to empty it.

For securing the holder to a hard surface, such as the instrument board of an automobile, ll stamp out from the back of the holder the lugs 5, which lugs are bent outwardly beyond the sides of the holder in the plane of the heel; and are each provided with a suitable hole through which a screw or nail be passed. lin securing the device to the rear of the front seat of the automobile for use by the passengers in the rear seat, it is necessary to provide sial mea as, on aunt of theupholstering, there is often no convenient spot to which-the device can be secured by screws. wardly from the upper edge of the back of the holder the spring clips 6, which spring clips are adapted to detachably hold in place the U-shaped pin 7. This pin 7 may be engaged in the upholstering and will securely hold the device in position.

In the front of the holder are stamped up a pair of guides 8 and the stop 9. The guides and stopare intended to hold in place I therefore cut out'and bend downthe matches 10, which are mounted in a well known manner on a strip 11, the lower end of the strip being'bent up in front of the lower ends of the stems of the matches, and the upper end of the strip bent down over the heads of the matches and engaged behind the other end. I

The stop 9 is suficiently spaced from the lower ends of the guides 8 to permit the insertion, and withdrawal of the cardboard strip between them, the cardboard strip 11 being sufficiently flexible to enable it to be pulled over the stop 9 when force is applied thereto and yet sufficiently stifl' to avoid accidental disengagement.

As there is danger of the strip 11 pulling out when a match is to be torn therefrom, I provide the stop 9 with the upwardly directed lip or retainer 12 and the integral ends 13. The lower end of the strip is thus securely held in position, but by moving it upwardly from behind the lip 12, it may be easily pulled over the latter and withdrawn.

To provide a support for a cigar, the upper edges of the sides of the tray and support are concaved, and the tab l will preferably be bent to lie in alinement with the concaved edge of the ends of the support and tray so that short stubs of cigars may be supported, although the tab may be bent to lie over the cigar, in which position it would beuseful in retaining the cigar in position.

From the above description it will be seen that l have devised a construction which will satisfactorily attain the object of my invention as set out in the preamble of this specification.

What I claim i:-

1. lln an ashtray and holder for matches which are mounted on a'fiexible stri the lower end of the strip being bent up over the front of the lower portions of the stern of the matches, the combination of a supllltl lltl port; a pair of parallel ides on said. supwhich are mounted on a flexible strip,.-the

lower end of the strip being bent up over the front of the lower portions'ofthe stems of the matches, the combination of a sheet metal Support; apair of p'arallel guides on said support behind .whichthe flexible strip may slide; a stop onsaid holder on which the lower endof the strip may 'rest; and a. retainer adapted to engage over-the upwardly. bent part of the strip, r

said guides and stop beingstamped up 0m the support and-theretainer an integral lip on the outer edge of'the stop.

3; Inan ashtray and match holderythe combination of an open-topped box-like support; aremovable tray in said support, the upper edges of two opposite sides of said support being concaved; and a tab on one side of and extending over the tray.

4'. An ash tray and match holder compris- -ing anopen-topped. box like support bent up from sheet metal and having a pair of lugs stamped out from theback thereof and extending outwardly beyond the sides of the support; and a pair of spring clips formed by cutting out and bending'down portions of the back at the upper edge thereof.

Signed at New York city this 13th day of June, 1923.

CHARLES W. GIRSCH.

Witnesses Jorpr A. DAWSON, EMMA ALPERBTEIN. 

